{"id":9,"date":"2017-11-06T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:20:23","slug":"where-to-seek-help","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/where-to-seek-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to seek asylum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">UNHCR does not provide legal advice or representation in individual cases. For assistance in the United States, we recommend consulting with a qualified U.S. immigration attorney. For your convenience, below please find lists of nonprofit organizations and pro bono legal service providers in the United States that assist persons with immigration matters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.immigrationadvocates.org\/nonprofit\/legaldirectory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.immigrationadvocates.org\/nonprofit\/legaldirectory\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/list-pro-bono-legal-service-providers-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/list-pro-bono-legal-service-providers-map<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immi.org\/info\/FindLegalHelp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.immi.org\/info\/FindLegalHelp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asaptogether.org\/en\/\">https:\/\/asaptogether.org\/en\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNHCR does not provide legal advice or representation in individual cases. For assistance in the United States, we recommend consulting with a qualified U.S. immigration attorney. For your convenience, below please find lists of nonprofit organizations and pro bono legal service providers in the United States that assist persons with immigration matters: http:\/\/www.immigrationadvocates.org\/nonprofit\/legaldirectory\/ https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/eoir\/list-pro-bono-legal-service-providers-map https:\/\/www.immi.org\/info\/FindLegalHelp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}